Scope and Contents Burial customs on Barraigh/Isle of Barra, probably collected from Ciorstan MacLean née Cameron, Leideag, Barraigh/Isle of Barra, telling how a 'bonnach tollt' was put in the coffin and a coin is put under the coffin in the grave. 'The toll saved the bonnach from the corra-chagailt...Even the coin in the fasnadh had to be treated in a peculiar way to save it from the sithich' [fairies].' The vocabulary notes include 'Tàsg = the bird that foretells death tri sgramhann granda - less than a...

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Verse collected from Ciorstan Cameron [Christina or Chirsty Cameron], Leideag [Barraigh/Isle of Barra], wife of John Maclean, crofter, beginning 'Raonabo cuir an t uisge os, S a leud bruich boch[d]'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.